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This week episode 303, John's Island.

The last week we covered the continued fighting in South Carolina

following the surrender of the main British Southern Army

under General Cornwalliset, Yorktown, Virginia. In South Carolina, General Nathaniel General

at Yorktown Virginia. In South Carolina, General Nathaniel Green and the militia under General

Francis Marion were pushing the British into an ever-shrinking circle

around Charleston. The new British commander in Charleston,

General Alexander Leslie, was consolidating his forces as best he could to hold on to whatever parts of the

state that he could.

Both sides remain concerned that some peace settlement might rely on what territories

the armies held at the time, meaning that

forcing the British out of Charleston entirely would help ensure

recognition of South Carolina's independence.

With word of the victory at Yorktown,

General Thomas Sumter returned to Green's camp.

You may recall back in episode 292,

General Sumter had tried to pretty much disband his militia army

and personally traveled back to North Carolina to take a break.

Part of this was Sumter's anger at orders from Green and Governor Rutledge

to stop the looting of loyalist properties, which Sumter relied on to pay his army.

Remember, part of what he was doing was capturing slaves that belonged to loyalists to pay his soldiers for their continued service.

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